Hi from a full-time freelancer (trade books, mostly copyediting and proofreading).
For most of 25 years in-house I was a production editor, in books at three publishers; and online at a 1990s webzine, “HMS Beagle,” of BioMedNet/Elsevier. You don’t get much choice of projects as an employee, but you can get variety. Some of my titles have included a Hitchens collection, a guide to secular living, a queer Christian journalist’s tour of religious groups including Westboro Baptist, and a young-earth creationism textbook.
Publishing looks much less glamorous than what I saw in “The Devil Wears Prada.” Here I am at an in-house, windowless, former-storage-room office. I knew I’d like working there when no one vetoed my hammock. My previous job would not let me screw a manual pencil sharpener into my IKEA-style modular desk. At least I had offices. In the last few years editors have been forced into ever-smaller cubes, ever-growing pods, and ever-noisy long tables.
I miss infinite free books. I’ve donated forty-pound boxes of freethought-friendly/interesting to around two hundred groups, and am still active “tagging and releasing” random books “in the wild” via BookCrossing.com, whose NYC meetup I used to run: [bookcrossing.com]
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